Weezer Frontman Cuomo Reveals Why They Released Two Albums on the Same Day

On Tuesday, fans got not one but two "new" albums from Weezer.  The first, Death to False Metal, features 10 tracks that were written for previous albums but didn't make the final cuts.  The other release was a re-issue of their 1996 album, Pinkerton.  Frontman Rivers Cuomo said that reason behind the double release was "for our core fans...As long as our fans want more music and we have it ready, we're happy to give it to them."

Cuomo said that the reason the songs on False Metal didn't make it to their albums was because "I was just 90% there with a song and I just couldn't figure out, like, what that last lyric was or whether that particular note was supposed to go up or down."  In that case, the band would set the songs aside and come back to them later "with fresh ears" to see how they could have been fixed.

As for the re-issued version of Pinkerton, which was loved by fans but panned by critics when it was released, Cuomo thinks he knows why it wasn't well-received.  He says that when Pinkerton came out, people only knew "'Buddy Holly' and the Happy Days video."  Releasing Pinkerton, which the singer called "very dark and ugly," threw critics off because "no one had seen that side of us before."  But now, Cuomo is glad to know that "indie bands that talk about that record and Weezer a lot and that's just the coolest thing in the world."

The Weez will kick off their Memories tour on November 26th in Los Angeles and will also play in Boston, New York City, Chicago and San Francisco.  All the dates can be found at their website.

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